Bengals' goal is to keep Johnson, Atkins, Dunlap intact

12:02 AM,
Jul. 17, 2013

Written by

Joe Reedy
The Cincinnati Enquirer

The person who might have been the most surprised about Carlos Dunlap's contract extension with the Cincinnati Bengals was the one who received it.

With the six-year, $40 million deal officially announced Tuesday, the fourth-year defensive end said he didn't expect it to happen this close or soon to the start of training camp.

"It definitely came as a surprise. We've been talking for a few months now, but it didn't get to crunch time until yesterday," Dunlap said. "(Dunlap's agent) Drew (Rosenhaus) came up there and pulled me over to the side and was like: 'Hey bud, we need to sit down and ...